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My 11-year old grandson is also into Harry Potter. I taught him to turn and he makes his own wands. He gave a few to the neighbor's kids and is now the hit of the neighborhood.

Very nice, Richard.

I got a lot of Bradford Pear from my daughter's tree that fell in October. Made a bowl for them using green wood. It warped when it dried, but they love it. It was my...

Great Wands! My 9-year-old grandson was really into the Harry Potter movies, when I started teaching him woodturning. He has made a lot of wands and given them to his friends. None as nice as...

I use water-based dyes and store them in glass jars. But don't leave them in your unheated garage during the winter, in the Northeast. Made that mistake last year. What a mess.

I recently got my hands on a lot of bradford pear, when my daughter's tree collapsed after the October snowstorm in the Northeast. I prepared a few blanks and covered them in Anchorseal. I'll turn...

Today I'm cutting down my daughter's Bradford Pear tree that was destroyed during the recent Nor'easter. I was hoping to make some peppermills. It seems like a lot of people make bowls from this...

Jim,
On most web forums, the name "Bill Smith" is already taken, as it was when I joined Sawmill Creek. So I use an old stage name when I was in a rock band, many decades ago.

I made my first Cryptex for my wife's 60th birthday party. Unfortunately, I only had green wood to work with. This caused a crack after it started drying and put some of the parts out of alignment....

Paul . . . I left the roughed out, painted blanks on my workbench in my garage. I probably should have put it in a paper bag with the shavings, as was suggested on the Creek. Perhaps it was due to my...

My Latex Paint experiment failed. Or more accurately, the latex paint failed to prevent checking. I completely covered my roughed out blanks with latex paint. And three days later, two of them...

I just cut some logs into blank-length pieces. I roughed out a few of them and put tenons on the ends. I'm a low budget operation and I saw on the Creek that latex paint can be used to prevent...

I was able to cut up the logs today to make some blanks. The tree was cut down about two weeks ago. I'm thinking that for the two pieces on the left, I'll cut them in half - right down the middle of...

I don't have a picture, but I'm wondering if there is a name for the following portion of a tree. It's the part where a limb once connected to the trunk, but the limb has long since died and rotted....

I making a Machinist's Toolchest out of some red oak that my son-in-law gave me. The oak is 6/4 that I ripped into 1/2" wide strips. I'll glue the strips into the sizes that I need.

I want to...

I made mine from the Rockler plans.

After reading some posts on Sawmill Creek regarding the potential danger of using spalted wood for food products, especially unfinished/untreated spalted wood, I will be making some new prototypes...

The person posting that ad obviously doesn't know what they are worth. If I didn't live in New England, I'd drive down there myself to pick them up. I can always use an extra "hole maker".

Although I've had my lathe for several years, I never did a lot of turning on it until this year. So I also consider myself a novice. But here's what I've learned.

Pine and/or green wood - I...

These are my prototype Sugar Shakers. There is no finish on the inside of any of the shakers, based on advice I got from fellow Creekers. On each unit, there is a cork "gasket" to attach the top...

I put some cherry trim on parts of my boat. I was shocked at how dark it became.

My first turnings were replacement spindles for my oak dining room chairs. The old ones were chewed by our puppy, at the time.

This project allowed me to purchase the Jet Midi Lathe, since the...

Thanks, everyone, for all of your input. I wasn't aware that the inside should not be finished. That simplifies things tremendously.

I built my first wooden sugar shaker this evening on my lathe. I had some spalted birch available. I'll post pictures in the morning after the BLO finish dries.

My question is related to shelf...

I actually have both on my laptop - Open Office (v2.4) and MS Office. I began using Open Office to avoid paying Microsoft. I've used it for several years. Now that my employer is a Microsoft...

I was about to make some salt shakers that use cork as a "gasket" to hold the "head" of the shaker to the body. When I pulled out a sheet of cork that I had from a few years ago, it was very dried...